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Indonesia has it's share of gem grade rock like petrified Palm Root that has been replaced with agate and polishes like glass. It's one thing to find the agatized root with it's wood look that produces some cool looking cabs...

Indonesia has it's share of gem grade rock like petrified Palm Root that has been replaced with agate and polishes like glass. It's one thing to find the agatized root with it's wood look that produces some cool looking cabs...

One of the premiere agates of Mexico with it's signature tight banding along with some classic shadowing and floaters. The color is sweet too! Amazing show piece or cut a bunch of super cabs. -WET pic.-(7.4 oz.) end...

Ten years ago a collecting area in Bear Canyon was found at the southern end of the Pryor Mountains in Montana. You better be prepared for some tough terrain and know that you will find the collecting area...

The heyday for this and many other depleted and seldom seen agate came in the 60"s and 70"s and you rarely get a chance to get your hands on this stuff. Chihuahua, Mexico is a place of holiness to any rock hound and has...

This rough is from California and according the the miner, no two pieces are ever the same. The seams this comes from change constantly along their lengths, supplying a new material every two feet or so...

Another of the never ending Mexican agates that is not seen much anymore as it was mined out many years ago. Pops up now and then in old collections. Real nice stuff from the good 'ol days of the 60's and 70's when rocks...

According to old records, deposits of British Columbia jade were first identified by Chinese settlers in 1886 while passing through Victoria looking for the gold fields along the Fraser River when jade was considered...

The Chuckawalla Spring area in Riverside County, California is where you'll find this rough chalcedony . It's obvious it formed in the mountain crevices as water ran down the sides and filled the voids with minerals or...

The Clear Creek agates from Utah were lost years ago due to a new freeway being built that ruined the access to them. The fellow who collected this rough got it years ago before the new road was built...

This rough is from Wyoming and was collected by Eddy Cole in the mountain pass. You can see in the pictures how the agate that he has brought to market has some different looking agate completely as he got further into the...

Discovered in 1997 in a remote region of Las Plumas, Chubut, Patagonia, Argentina near to a petrified wood deposit these agates shocked the agate community with their stunning color. Each consist of a smoky black...

Also know as Wingate Pass this material is from the China Lake Military Reserve in California. This material was last dug in the 1960s and collecting is no longer allowed on the site making it quite...

This agate is from the Bighorn Canyon location in Montana and the mine has been closed for many years and will likely never open due to silly restrictions like Prudent Man for instance .Even to this day it is a remote...

This agate is from the Bighorn Canyon location in Montana and the mine has been closed for many years and will likely never open due to silly restrictions like Prudent Man for instance .Even to this day it is a remote...

Very near Prineville Oregon you can find where this grand plume agate once was when discovered by a fellow named, Shirts Quant. Back around the time he was born in 1915, his mother would load up the Model T...